THE PRODUCTION OF NEW SCIENTIFIC FACTS AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF RESEARCHERS` INTERCOURSE
by Dr.sc.phil.Karlheinz Lüdtke
Fridtjof-Nansen-Str.6
99425 Weimar
In recent decades we have witnessed the emergence of a growing body of
science and technology studies (STS) concerned with work, technology and
interaction in scientific laboratories and institutes. They have provided
an important contribution to explain much of what goes on in knowledge
production in terms of social factors. But nevertheless as yet we know
relatively little about of the role playing the patterns and processes
of social interaction for the development of scientific knowledge. The
deficits show especially in the fact that the genesis of the forms of
social interaction is hardly integrated into the discussions in regard
of their relevance for the development of the knowledge how to produce
scientific facts and what the facts mean. The aim of this contribution
is to provide better understanding in this respect.
